Dawning of the post-newspaper world.(MASTHEAD SYMPOSIUM: Care and feeding of blogs)(Brief article)

A whole ecology of local news is coming and among the players will be:

* Local nonprofits with newspaper-style journalism and foundation/philanthropist subsidy

* For-profits and nonprofits subsidized by individuals and groups with partisan interests

* Venture capital-funded things like Outside.in and local versions of Huffington Post that may or may not try to be nonpartisan

* Current local players trying to enlarge their piece of the pie

* TV stations getting more active online and beyond video, bloggers banding together (local pajamasmedia.com), talk radio trying to cheaply expand into news aggregation, alternative weeklies publishing daily online

* National news organizations trying to figure out new ways to get into local news beyond the local paper/tv station. Metromix.com and Topix to name two

Dave Mastio is the creator of BlogNetNews.com and has written editorials for USA Today, The Washington Examiner, and The Virginian-Pilot. Email: dmastio1@yahoo.com

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